Message-Id: <199611140436.UAA14120@iberia.it.earthlink.net>
From: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>
To: <www-html@w3.org>, "MegaZone" <megazone@livingston.com>
Subject: Re: HTML 3.2 PR color value syntax (fwd)
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 20:35:35 -0800
MegaZone wrote:
> All? 256x256x256 = 16,777,216 colors. You want to name them all?
Just use the Star Wars system. #0b13c0 -> "obiwanthreecio"
> There are already clashes with some early browser releases over the
> color names. As a designer I avoid names completely and use the hex
> equivalents. I think it would be good for any editors to do the same
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> even if they present it to the user as 'Bright Red' save the HTML as
> "#FF0000".
On the other hand, it might be useful to be able to define rgb values
for color names in a master style sheet so that color changes in the
master would affect all subsequent sheets in which those color names
are used.
David Perrell